The News Star in Monroe, La. reports that Williams, who was in his second stint as the head football coach at the Louisiana school, was fired personally and suddenly by university President Frank Pogue.

Williams is most known in Washington as being the first African-American quarterback to lead his team to a Super Bowl title. His Redskins captured Super Bowl XXII in 1987, earning the game's MVP honors in a blowout of the Denver Broncos.